Excel for business mastery: from spreadsheet to strategy
Are you still manually crunching numbers while your colleagues automate tasks and generate powerful reports? Excel is the single most important tool in business analysis, finance, marketing, and operations yet most professionals use less than 10% of its power. This intensive online course gives you the fastest route to fluency in advanced functions, data visualization, and automation, transforming you into a highly efficient, data-driven decision-maker.
What You'll Learn
- Advanced Functions Mastery: VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, Logical (IF, AND, OR) and Conditional Functions
- Data Cleaning and Validation: Text-to-Columns, Data Validation, Deduplication
- Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts: Dynamic summarization, reporting, and interactive data exploration
- Financial and Statistical Functions: Interest, depreciation, averages, forecasting
- Data Visualization: Professional charts, sparklines, conditional formatting
- Automation Fundamentals: Introduction to simple Macros and recording repetitive tasks
- Dashboards and Report Design: Principles for clean, user-friendly business summary reports
Who This Course is For
- Complete Beginners: Individuals who use Excel occasionally but want a structured foundation for professional work
- Office Administrators and Support Staff: Professionals who handle daily data entry and reporting and need to drastically cut down processing time
- Small Business Owners: Those who manage finances, inventory, or sales data and need reliable analysis tools
- Students and Recent Graduates: Anyone needing practical Excel skills for entry-level business roles in finance, HR, or marketing
Prerequisites
- Basic computer literacy (saving files, navigating folders)
- Microsoft Excel installed (Version 2016 or newer recommended)
- Reliable internet connection for live online sessions
What's Included
This course features a robust hybrid learning model:
- Physical Classes: 3 days per week — hands-on coding, collaborative projects, and core lectures.
- Online Classes: 2 days per week — code reviews, debugging, Q&A, and deep dives.
- Physical Weekend Sessions: Admits students who can only attend weekend classes - Saturdays and Sundays.
- Course Materials
- Code Mentorship
- Portfolio Development
- Certificate of Completion
Tools & Technologies You Will Use
- Primary Tool: Microsoft Excel (desktop application)
- Delivery Platform: Zoom or similar for screen-sharing and interactive learning
- Data Sets: Pre-prepared CSV and Excel files for all practical exercises
Capstone Project
You will consolidate everything you have learned to build a fully functional, professional-grade dashboard suitable for managerial review. The project involves:
1. Data Preparation: Advanced cleaning functions (Data Validation, Text functions) on a raw dataset.
2. Calculation Engine: Complex formulas (VLOOKUP, IF statements, SUMIFS) to calculate KPIs like revenue, profit margin, and budget variance.
3.Visualization: Designing an aesthetic and functional dashboard using Pivot Charts, Slicers, and Conditional Formatting
4. Final Report: Delivering a concise written summary of insights derived from your automated Excel dashboard